Day Eight started at 7:00 in the morning, but due to another miscommunication, a group of us had missed the 7:45 AM briefing. We boarded the bus and drove 90 minutes north to the Zuidzeemuseum on the IJsselmeer. In a strange course of events, we actually ended up passing through Amsterdam (the morning after we…

Day Six, like Day Five, began with some confusion about what time we should be waking up. I woke up at 8:00 AM after getting a restful seven hours of sleep (it’s not my strict rule of eight hours, but I take anything that I can get here) expecting to leave at 9:00 AM, but…